There are two main versions of the C++ ABI in the free world. That's one of the fun things we have to deal with. We solve it by supplying a wrapper around g++ that compiles everything twice; once with a compiler that supports one ABI and once with a compiler that supports the other one.

Some fun filename mangling and parameter massaging takes place behind the scenes in order to make that work.

It now works well enough that I've managed to build a proper autopackage for Scribus 1.3.2 and install it locally (non-root) on charybdis, my desktop machine.

That's nothing, Mike. Try Habermas some day. Half-page sentences are not unusual in his works (which are quite banal, if you manage to penetrate the thick German academic style). One reason why he has become so unreasonably influential and supposedly widely read must be exactly that he is extremely hard to understand.

The Lonely Crowd is another one of those badly written (and boring) books that got extremely influential. The research behind it seems rather poor, too.